(1214) Afternoon all. (1236)
13. Combination quiz question plus lady at lunchtime
Who is she? When? Occasional film? Initials LP.
Another photo of her:
12. Millipede
11. Of rumours and danger in even mentioning it
10. Bergoglio
Liverpool Echo, ha ha: “Merseyside man with an outside chance of being the next Pope.”
Weeelllll, maybe that should be left to God to decide.
(1059) Yikes, time flies! Already elevenses? Tied up in domestics too (quite like that concept). (1152)
9. It’s all to do with political will and protecting your people
“Britain has weeks to escape new powers allowing the World Health Organisation to recommend imposing lockdowns in future pandemics, a group of MPs and peers has warned.”
8. TDS (see brolls for links)
7. Guardians of the homeland
The best way is for almost all in that land to be well educated, inc. in the western underpinning … what Steve calls cultural Christianity … the civility, dignity, way of doing things. The next step is an individual choice … John 3:16. I see no issue with that.
So, looking at a year level of military rookies, they’re faced, as I was, with choices. In my case, it was either military, in which dad and mates had been, trade because my father had died and the stepdad was in a trade, plus was offering me factory space gratis for the first years, to do my screenprinting. My dad had been trade too … a master.
My mum provided a third path … both had slaved to put me through one of the public schools, which was almost a guarantee for good university entry … teaching beckoned, as I’d been awarded a scholarship. Plus there was a young lady in the mix and a future there.
I chose the screenprinting and ran with that for awhile, taking three month courses and related things. But I was also able to gauge my aptitude, plus major corporations had that game tied up … a newbie was not going to be able to undercut the big firms … so it seemed the best future was in education … so I was quite a mix.
Now the military thing … a natural sceptic/radical/rebel (through my mother?) … weeeellll, I had to sort out in my head where I was on that … before committing, because my training had taught that the time to ask questions is before committing fulltime. Once you were in, you were in, matey. Utter imbecility not to insta-obey when on an exercise or for real, as you’re endangering your mates.
Now I knew that and the question was … did my temperament allow me to be what was needed? And that’s the dilemma facing lads like this:
In other words, we’re now in the hands of globo-commie above I’m afraid and they are not patriotic to their land. When govt starts effing around with troops, esp. loyalty, then pay and conditions, when good men are fired over the deathjab … that’s a morale sapper … and these *&£#£&*s above are not good people.
Serving forces personnel are just below a gallant leader in society imho … they should have the best of everything, inc. cradle to grave funding. The leader’s job is to deploy in such a way that he keeps his troops alive afap.
(0804) If you look at the sign-off time of the last post to the sign-on of this one, then that was quite some second sleep. Much to do but at a medium pace … this continues in Mon 2 … (0930)(0936 addendum) Bergoglio dies at 88. (0937)
6. DAD at 1026
a) In the absence of any tidings from Emmanuel Macron, here is Donald Trump’s Easter message “Melania and I wish everyone a happy Easter!”
b) Boy-rape and attempted murder in modern multicultural France.
c) ‘The European Qu’ran’: falsifying European history with funding from the EU.
d) UK ‘at risk of evolving into propaganda regime’ with unenforced FOI rules and official secrecy
5. Steve last evening
4. Alito’s dissent in that sneaky Saturday midnight judgement
3. Saw this one in passing
2. There are certain essentials
… and their priority order is individual, personalised … good thing too. My priority order is:
It might seem that the last one is a low priority but that’s not so. You can’t deal with what needs dealing with, with other people, jobs too, unless you yourself are capable in the first place, and that is especially so with advancing age. I need to go over and see how Grandad is but first the other things must be done, plus:
This last one is directed at myself … in your case, I wish to know your sit-rep, so that I know what I’m dealing with here … it stays private, all right? There’s also a thing I call faux heroism, such as when someone with a shocking cold, lurgy, battles on through it, spreading it to everyone else, being brave and stoic. That’s just irresponsible.
On the other hand, real ailments of our own, pain etc. … well they need dealing with, there and then. Some friends of mine have some issues just now, they need dealing with …
My list of texts would be Bible, Kipling’s “If”, Desiderata … they’re enough to be going on with. Then the aphorisms gathered at, say, Unherdables HQ.
Third last bullet point above … strength of mind … this is where yesterday’s Resurrection comes in, gives strength and other goodies not natural to me … I can be a right bstd otherwise. By all means ignore that offer … choice, remember … good luck with your future progress then, I say. Humans are their own worst enemies. …/NUFF FOR NOW.
Now off to see how Grandad is […] hmmmm, no further word. Hmmmmm.
(0248)(0348)
1. When one publishing system clashes with another
Commenter Redacted has a site “EKO” here’s one page, here’s another. As a site manager over a longish period myself, I have to say the navigation is fraught at substacks interfacing with WP through Apple … very difficult copying text and pasting.
I also have issues with substack over navigation with things like About, the first place I go. When I cannot find anything about the redactor, nor about what EKO means, it’s frustrating, esp. when covering the territory we do here. However, there were some vital reads in there too, e.g. comments thread here:
Go to the comments threads on EKO posts, one being Steven Paul:
“In coming to the end of an old, wearying season and anticipating the joys of a new one approaching, I’ve been reminded the last few days of how messy things were for Him.
I did finally get into the About page:
Now, if substack are giving me such a hard time accessing basic data without having to come at it in different ways, it does make the platform a real chore, esp. when speed-reading. Of course, it applies in reverse too … some of you immediately reported the issues when I set up Jstack, a compositional and access nightmare, not designed for site-nav but more for one-off daily rants.
Which is a pity, as Redacted and some commenters write some very telling things worth noting.
The question of jazz and its roots, for example … that’s a bit each way … I had to ditch two versions of one of the songs late yesterday because they were iffy, before finding a third. On the other hand, the 1924 to 1931 period was far more freeform, with many solos in one song, rather than a blended loss of individuality which dominated the later 30s and 40s, lukewarm like the Laodecian church.
And that’s particularly an issue in 2025, when “choice”, the cornerstone of John 3:16, is being snuffed out by a priestly caste, step by step. By design. I was particularly interested in the point about tying Jesus to a timeline, in order to erase Him.
Also, to set near impossible parameters, in order to render something unprovable, something requiring faith, which the detractor wishes to see discarded, as part of the plan.
Particularly as confirmation swiftly follows the “buying of the ticket”, which is why so many were and still are willing to pay the ultimate penalty. Why? Might it be because it happens to be true? So the other side provides cults such as Manson and Jim Jones, where the devotees are totally obedient, but with dark, desolate outcomes. The outcomes, the fruits, are a major factor in all this. …/NUFF FOR NOW.
(1648) Evening all.
22. Protect and extract our girls
… Moosh shows how:
21. You really want this turned into a deathculter community centre
… or worse … torn up and reduced to rubble?
20. DAD at 1026
This is gold. James Comer should get a Congressional Letter Award of some kind:
19. Even south Londoners are saying it
18. Steve
a. ‘For the first time in eight years, all branches of Christianity are celebrating Easter on the same dates, from 18 – 20 April. This is because of a rare alignment of the Gregorian calendar – which Catholic and Protestant churches use – with the Julian calendar used by Eastern Orthodox churches.’
JH: Not only is that happening but the polit-sit has reached such a crisis, where the globopsycho lowlifes now feel supremely confident we won’t fight back and so they’re ramping it up … but …
… at the same time, Gen X malcontents have reached the age where they’re in charge, plus Gen Zee are falling away from their brainwashing to a point. The number of times I saw tweets today saying “He is risen” … this is no coincidence. The reply is “He is risen indeed”, which is precisely what the Orthodox say in their languages … but now the west is picking up on it … it seems the US south also use it. Plus X is sending it viral around the world.
Hence my use of it today on the blog.
b. Hearts of Oak: The Week According to…Lembit Opik. (1026)
c. About more lowlifery
16. Sickos for satan are out in force – biological men wearing women’s clothing (transvestites) were seen lifting their skirts and urinating in public, which is an offence. A statue of the suffragette Millicent Fawcett was defaced along with others in Parliament Square. This is what they’re like when they don’t get their own way. They’re no different over the pond. (Links in sidebar)
(1236) Afternoon all. Cunning plan is a bit of politics below, then AKH’s Hornleigh film, then some jazz around 1545 … enjoy this afternoon.
17. Poignant reminder, ladies and gentlemen
16. Sickos for satan are out in force
15. Even Gorgeous George is hard at the punditry
14. Stained glass
13. Some gladness, some sadness
This was at OoL in comments:
“Whilst following Granddad’s trials and tribulations I have admired his courage and fortitude, whilst leaning to looking for humour despite everything. My late 66 year old husband had a DNR in place, he was so ill and frail that resuscitation would have been futile. More worrying however is that my very ill 40 son is been asked to sign a DNR weeks after his father’s death.”
I just saw a friend’s arranged sideboard, photo of long deceased and bright cheerful card someone had given … these sorts of things knock me around … human vulnerability when they don’t want you to see them vulnerable. The day we we stop caring … might as well give up. It’s not in my nature to give up.
The gladness bit is the number of people awakening from slumber now, esp. at X and all sorts of wonderful architecture, vistas, greetings for Easter … good people … and it’s nice to see.
12. IYE on Pammy and other issues
“I can’t be ar$ed anymore. The current admin is just as bad as all the others in this regard. Bondi is just another wet blanket and the new See eye aye big cheese is too. Imho.”
JH: I found this to go with it:
(0947) Very sleepy still … missed second sleep, plus layoff from gym is not good for the metab, plus overindulging in naughty food. Nichevo (possible best equivalent in English is “no matter”). Could be very slow blogging today, readers, as X and many blogs are necessarily sluggish just now. This rant continues in Sunday 7.
11. No hiding them there eggs
… straight down the hatch.
10. No holding her now
9. Hallelujah!
8. Ah, this is better now … pundits arising from slumber
7. Main reasons for the “He is risen” in the Mahler post
… include that that symphony is known as Resurrection, plus defiance this time round against all attempts at suppression, from deathcult invaders to the godless Wokerati, to Nigerian pogroms, plus a huge uptick, worldwide, in references to a “Christian” Easter, from Vlad in Russkieland to the US admin to our own pundits here.
The policy at nourishing unherdables is “afap, to mention in no uncertain terms, then move on to the next item” …
… and that applies to, say, Miles Mathis himself or Monkeywerx to Gateway to others we post here. Better we post than not post … people can then add to or otherwise comment as they wish. The crime would be not to post. Where it gets tricky is if something is Woke or one of the “beware list” lot (navbar) where we’ve seen sufficient so as not to run them.